bolero

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I think that making your own veil, and perhaps a bolero will be very special.

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  1. noun A very short jacket worn open in the front.
  2. noun A lively Spanish dance in triple meter.
  3. noun The music for this dance.

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  • ‘Will you give me some breakfast?’ Diana was in shorts and a bolero which showed her midriff. —  Mingled With Venom-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 54
  • Lifting her arms behind her head, she pirouetted slowly before Robie to show how much she did for her bolero half-jacket and her form-fitting slacks that melted into skylon just above the knees. —  JULY, 1953 VOL
  • Ow MEANWHILE, the young woman in the half-bolero had scanned the nearby gentlemen on her own. —  JULY, 1953 VOL
  • I was to be a Greek slave; my dress was of white, flimsy, spangled gauze, with a white-satin embroidered bolero, a turban of tulle, with all sorts of dangly things hanging over my ears. —  In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875
  • The bolero is only a continuous display of musical fireworks. —  In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875
 

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/bəˈleɪroʊ/
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